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Blimey! Adebanji! Look at you .... you make me feel so proud; that's a shot in the arm for us struggling artists albeit I'm not in your league ... At 80 I've only just learnt to paint myself in oil, next I'll try to get some on the canvas.

Hello adebanji. I'm a newbie sketcher living in south korea. I really liked the style of your sketch and immediately started to sketch everyday with ballpoint pen. It's been 2 months. Anyway i have found a great ballpoint pen so i want you try it. It's Monami 153 ballpoint pen. It's very similar to bic pen sizewise or shape and of course this is oil based pen. But I find this more blacker than bic pen and it has nice ink flow. I hope you try it! Thanks.

Wow you are simply amazing....I am mesmerised by your art; what does a person have to do to get in hold of one of your sketches. I'm a huge fan, I would love to own one. If you have an old one that you would like to give away ill be honored to own it.

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"Drawing is everything. When I was sixteen, I made over 400 drawings during that winter and spring. I drew mostly with a 2B pencil on typewriter paper. I drew during every spare moment. I’m heartened when I see your sketchbooks and see the way you’re always drawing at the Concept workshops. You remind me of me. When I was teaching university, I was disheartened by students who hadn’t paid their drawing dues, for unless you practice, you simply don’t know how to make lovely lines."-William Whitaker"Drawing is the basis of everything. All the way through the painting you must be questioning the drawing, right up to the very end. Otherwise you get the drawing right and fill it in with colour. As long as you get the effect you want, that's the important thing. You can use a piece of rag, a sable brush, a hoghair brush or a knife - it doesn't matter what."

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"Football is an art and players should be allowed to show creativity. If the coach gives freedom to the players to play the way they know how, they can do it.

"If [painters] Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas had known when they were doing their work the level of recognition that they were going to have, they would not have done them the same. You have to enjoy doing the art and not think 'will I win?'".

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I am a little bloke with a big heart. I love the LORD cos he made me what I am today. I have a wonderful wife Ruth and a budding painter boy JOSH! He is 7 and a little girl who is 3!
I love sketching the human face, especially the people I meet from day to day, people I may never meet again!
So I sieze the opportunity, it's something that keeps me loving the place we all share.